Dr. Konitzer introduced preschool students to Serbian culture by reading and discussing a Serbian folktale.
Evgeny Postnikov, GSPIA doctoral student and native of Russia, gave a presentation on Russian cultural stereotypes versus reality to 200 students at Elizabeth Forward Middle School through the World Affairs Council and Global Studies Center's Student Ambassador program.
Prof. John Palka's lecture will be based on his book that, while historical in essence, is refreshingly contemporary in its account of the past that his ancestors helped to shape. It contains vivid portraits of courage and love of freedom and country that will resonate with modern Slovak-Americans, it will connect them with the boarder story of their ancestors.
The paper investigates the potential effects of euro adoption on the Polish economy. It analyses how a replacement of the national currency -zloty, and therefore an elimination of a real exchange rate, affects output fluctuations. In the paper, we develop a utility-based theoretical framework to provide a metric for judgment of alternative monetary policies; identify and estimate the sources of aggregate fluctuations; and calibrate the model's structural parameters to Polish economy.
The Undergraduate Research Symposium is an annual event since 2002 designed to provide undergraduate students, from the University of Pittsburgh and other colleges and universities, with advanced research experiences and opportunities to develop presentation skills. The event is open to undergraduates from all majors and institutions who have written a research paper from a social science, humanities, or business perspective focusing on the study of Eastern, Western, or Central Europe, the European Union, Russia, or other countries of the former Soviet Union.
Branislav Radeljic offers a fresh analysis of the role of the European Community in the disintegration of the Yugoslav state. He explores the economic, political and social aspects that eroded the relationship between the two parties.
Pitt students and faculty are invited to join a group of key staff members from the Political, Economic, Defense, and Public Affairs divisions of the U.S. Embassy in Kyiv for an “off-the-record” question and answer session about the ongoing crisis in Ukraine:
- Press Attaché - Embassy uses of social media tools and the role of social media throughout Ukraine’s political crisis
- Economic Officer – Economic overview
- Politico-Military Affairs Officer – Political overview
- Energy Attaché – Energy issues effecting Ukrainian sovereignty
In the past few months, Ukraine has received more international attention than in
all of its 22 years of independence combined. Protests have swept the country over
the past two months with the situation rapidly changing up until this moment. In the
face of government sponsored intimidation and violence, everyday people including
students, businessmen and journalists have taken to the streets to defend their
civil liberties and democratic values.
Join former GSPIA student and Ukrainian citizen, Marina Duane, in a discussion of
Nikolai Gogol’s work of historical fiction about Cossack life, Taras Bulba, is much more rarely a subject of scholarly scrutiny than Gogol’s other major works. The mainstream interpretation of Taras Bulba as primarily an adventure tale concerned with patriotism for Ukraine, the Russian empire, and Orthodoxy may explain the critical lacuna. The work strikes academic readers as one-dimensional, not to mention chauvinistic, and therefore is presumed to be of value only as light entertainment.
